Maternity Mortality And The Literature Of Madness

Author : Marilyn Yalom
Publisher : University Park ; London : Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness written by Marilyn Yalom and published by University Park ; London : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interrelationship between the option and experience of motherhood and the experience of mental breakdown as vividly communicated by 20th-century women writers. The focus is on three writers--Sylvia Plath, Marie Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood--but others are included, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emma Santos. Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness calls attention to the ways in which maternity and motherhood represent common forms of apprehension for all women, reactivating the fear of death that has been discovered and repressed in childhood, and, in some instances, contributing directly to mental breakdown. It offers evidence of the particular stresses encountered by highly gifted women who try to negotiate their way between creation and procreation and "write their way out" of madness.

Author : Marilyn Yalom
Publisher : University Park ; London : Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness written by Marilyn Yalom and published by University Park ; London : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interrelationship between the option and experience of motherhood and the experience of mental breakdown as vividly communicated by 20th-century women writers. The focus is on three writers--Sylvia Plath, Marie Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood--but others are included, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emma Santos. Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness calls attention to the ways in which maternity and motherhood represent common forms of apprehension for all women, reactivating the fear of death that has been discovered and repressed in childhood, and, in some instances, contributing directly to mental breakdown. It offers evidence of the particular stresses encountered by highly gifted women who try to negotiate their way between creation and procreation and "write their way out" of madness.

Author : Megan Rigers
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772581607
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature written by Megan Rigers and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary analysis and the real lived experiences of women. An example of this disconnect is the way in which the madwoman in feminist literature has become a lauded icon of liberation, when in reality her situation would be seen as anything but empowered. Finding the Plot takes this example to task, arguing that in fact any interpretation of women’s madness as subversive reinforces the very gender stereotypes that feminist literary criticism should be calling into question.

Author : Dalya Abudi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004181148
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature written by Dalya Abudi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship. It draws on both early and contemporary writings of Arab women to illuminate the traditional and evolving nature of mother-daughter relationships in Arab families and how these family dynamics reflect and influence modern Arab life.

Author : Barbara Almond
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271203
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster Within written by Barbara Almond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together case histories with rich examples from literature and popular culture, Almond uncovers the roots of ambivalence, tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children, and describes a spectrum of maternal behaviour - from normal feelings to highly disturbed mothering.

Author : Helen Small
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198184911
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Madness written by Helen Small and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront , Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.

Author : Yael S. Feldman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231111478
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Room of Their Own written by Yael S. Feldman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Room of Their Own is a comparative analysis of recent Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models, from Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to Marilyn French and Marie Cardinal. Feldman shows the richness and subtleties of Israeli women's fiction as she explores the themes of gender and nation, as well as the (non)representation of the "New Hebrew Woman" in five authors--Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Shulamith Hareven, Netiva BenYehuda, Ruth Almog, and Shulamit Lapid.

Author : Lilian R. Furst
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813193834
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Talk written by Lilian R. Furst and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "talking cure" of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature. Beginning with an overview of the principles of psychotherapy and its growing use as a treatment for mental and emotional disorders, Lilian Furst addresses the patient's view of the value of talk. Patients' portrayals of psychotherapy in literary works range from serious to satirical and from comic to ironic, with some descriptions verging on the grotesque. Furst identifies the overtalkers, undertalkers, and duet voices that shape the individual experiences of psychotherapy. While the voices of the overtalkers overwhelm those of their therapists, undertalkers are reluctant to express or acknowledge their feelings. Particularly revealing are the instances where patient and therapist provide separate but parallel renderings of the same therapy. Just Talk looks at a wide range of questions about psychotherapy. Furst considers the patient's first impressions of the therapist and how the patient is prompted to engage in talk. She looks for signs of self-deception or self-betrayal on the patient's part and asks how the therapist's behavior affects the patient's responses and the ultimate outcome of the therapy. Furst examines such well-known works as Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Plath's The Bell Jar, and Lodge's Therapy, as well as lesser-known novels, to discuss how patients react to psychotherapy as a cure for mental and emotional disorders. Her analysis of these narratives adds significantly to our understanding of the dynamic relationship between patient and therapist and reveals much about the healing process that is not addressed in technical casebooks.

Author : Bella Brodzki
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745565
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life/Lines written by Bella Brodzki and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.

Author : Neeru & Anshul Chandra Tandon
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126910151
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by Neeru & Anshul Chandra Tandon and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the novels of Margaret Atwood, b. 1939, Canadian litterateur.